Mission from procyon

Blueblade-69

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I picked up a mission from Hardwick Station in Procyon,
Boom time Delivery of 147 units of wine
To be delivered to Avogadro Enterprise in the Tau Ceti System
The only ship I have is a Anaconda, but when I got there I found out it is a Commercial Outpost, and doesn’t have large landing pads. So I have had to abandon the quest, which as demoted my reputation back down to neutral with Crimson Legal & Co.

I thought that if you had a large ship, missions would not be available to go to smaller landing pads.
 

[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99

[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99
Blueblade-69 said:
I picked up a mission from Hardwick Station in Procyon,
Boom time Delivery of 147 units of wine
To be delivered to Avogadro Enterprise in the Tau Ceti System
The only ship I have is a Anaconda, but when I got there I found out it is a Commercial Outpost, and doesn’t have large landing pads. So I have had to abandon the quest, which as demoted my reputation back down to neutral with Crimson Legal & Co.

I thought that if you had a large ship, missions would not be available to go to smaller landing pads.
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Greeting CMDR, nope, ELITE does no hand holding.

This is something you need to spot before taking missions, when you are looking at missions from the ship you want to use, it should say something about the size of the destination landing pads further down the mission details.

Space Outposts never have large pads, most surface ports do.
Space stations; Corolis, Orbis and Ocellus always have large pads.
 

Blueblade-69

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On other missions, they come up unavailable - Ship to large.
On the quest I picked up it said deliver to Avogadro Enterprise in the Tau Ceti System, it didn’t say the size of the landing pads or what kind of space station it was, I only found out when I got to the Tau Ceti System, and I only have the anaconda ship.
 

GraphiteGB

GraphiteGB
If it was not a cargo mission it would have warned that it does not support Large ships..
Cargo/fetch missions allow you to swap ships or even buy a second ship before loading so Does not restrict ship class..
As a small cargo ship costs peanuts, (348,720) you could BUY a new ship that fits on the pad before you collect the first cargo run and do multi runs to complete the mission then sell the small ship and work out the 10% loss into the profit line...
 
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[PS4-PS5] earthtone99 said:
Greeting CMDR, nope, ELITE does no hand holding.

This is something you need to spot before taking missions, when you are looking at missions from the ship you want to use, it should say something about the size of the destination landing pads further down the mission details.
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That's odd. I'm always blocked from taking delivery missions going to destinations my ship can't land at.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
Out of interest, did you take it from a mission board, or in space via a random offer? The latter wouldn't do the usual checks.

Additionally, if you took it from a mission board, were you in a smaller ship at the time?
 

Blueblade-69

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Well usually theses missions are blocked saying ship to large, but this time it wasn’t. I only have the anaconda ship, has I only do delivery and fetch missions, and I got the mission from the hardwick station mission board in Procyon. And I haven’t got any smaller ships.
I was demoted in my reputation with Crimson Legal & Co, also I was fined due to abandoning the mission. I ended up selling the wine at Boston base in Barnard’s star on the black market.
 

varonica

varonica
Wasn't this discussed a while back, players wanted to be able to take missions even if their ship was to large for the pad or they had no cargo space or not enough. The problem was if they were in the wrong ship by the time they swapped ships and got back to take the mission, the mission board had changed and that mission was no longer available. Missions where you were given the cargo by the mission giver would still not let you take them if you didn't have the cargo space, but missions where you had to buy the cargo yourself to deliver it would let you take them no matter what ship you had.

Or am I misremembering and they didn't change it at all!
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
varonica said:
Wasn't this discussed a while back, players wanted to be able to take missions even if their ship was to large for the pad or they had no cargo space or not enough. The problem was if they were in the wrong ship by the time they swapped ships and got back to take the mission, the mission board had changed and that mission was no longer available. Missions where you were given the cargo by the mission giver would still not let you take them if you didn't have the cargo space, but missions where you had to buy the cargo yourself to deliver it would let you take them no matter what ship you had.

Or am I misremembering and they didn't change it at all!
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Yeah you're misremembering.

The change was to allow you to take missions you had insufficient cargo space for... since we have the depot you can do the mission in multiple runs in a ship with less capacity.

One issue that comes about is people grab a bunch of missions while in a smaller ship, which include outpost targets. They switch to a larger ship, then load up from the depot, not realising they've taken cargo for an outpost target. They then can't switch ships as they don't have a small ship which can hold all the cargo the large ship currently holds.
 

Blueblade-69

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Well I was in the anaconda ship (the only ship I have) and it was a boom time delivery mission so I didn’t buy the cargo, and usually if the ship was to large the mission would be unavailable, but this time it wasn’t, and I didn’t know what kind of station it was until I got there, and it was a commercial outpost and doesn’t have a large landing pad.
 

[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99

[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99
[PS4] protoculturejunkie said:
That's odd. I'm always blocked from taking delivery missions going to destinations my ship can't land at.
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That’s sort of what I meant, for me if I’m in an incompatibly large ship for a medium pad mission, the text at the end of the mission is red, and usually I wouldn’t be able to select.

Swapping to a smaller ship e.g. a Trade Python etc and good to go.

o7
 

d8veh

d8veh
The problem is that we only have your story as you remember it. Often, there is a logical reason for it, but that reason was missed, not remembered or not understood by the player.

I always use nVidia Experience when I play. It's free if you have an nVidia GPU. There are other similar systems if you don't have an nVidia GPU. nVidia Experience records on a rolling road while you play. If anything weird happens, you can press a button to record the previous 5 minutes. When you study the replay, you see things that you missed during the actual game-play, and what you missed gives a logical explanation for it. Sometimes you can't even see it, but when you put the vid on the forum, some clever person in the crowd spots it.

I'm not saying that you did miss something, but without the recording, none of us can be sure.
 

Dillon Fallon

Dillon Fallon
d8veh said:
The problem is that we only have your story as you remember it. Often, there is a logical reason for it, but that reason was missed, not remembered or not understood by the player.

I always use nVidia Experience when I play. It's free if you have an nVidia GPU. There are other similar systems if you don't have an nVidia GPU. nVidia Experience records on a rolling road while you play. If anything weird happens, you can press a button to record the previous 5 minutes. When you study the replay, you see things that you missed during the actual game-play, and what you missed gives a logical explanation for it. Sometimes you can't even see it, but when you put the vid on the forum, some clever person in the crowd spots it.

I'm not saying that you did miss something, but without the recording, none of us can be sure.
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Something that is worth pointing out because playstation has gameplay recording set up as a default (what timeframe is recorded depends on your settings). You need a YouTube account to be able to post videos elsewhere, but the same basic principle does exist.
 
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